Megan Mahoney, MD, MBA
Professor
Family Community Medicine
School of Medicine
Dr. Megan Mahoney is the Hellman Endowed Professor and Chair in the UCSF Department of Family & Community Medicine - a department with a recognized legacy of defining the role of academic family medicine in the social justice movement. Throughout her career, Dr. Mahoney has built and led sustainable initiatives in health technology integration, quality improvement, and population health for health care organizations.…
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Her research has focused on the impact of primary care team cohesion on burnout, and the influence of diversity and inclusion on individual and team wellbeing. She has served in senior level positions in the U.S. and internationally, developing innovative and transformative approaches to proactive and personalized team-based primary care that empowers patients, health care providers, and communities. As President of the Medical Staff at Stanford Health Care, she provided oversight of quality, safety, and professionalism activities of the 3000 physicians within Stanford Health Care. She served as chief of primary care where she led primary care precision health equity, practice transformation, and population health initiatives for the network of primary care faculty practices at Stanford Health Care. She was a visiting professor at Aga Khan Medical College of East Africa and served on the family medicine committee of the Kenya Ministry of Health. Dr. Mahoney earned her B.A in Molecular and Cellular Biology at the University of California Berkeley, her M.D. at the University of California San Francisco, her Family Medicine Residency at UCSF San Francisco General Hospital, and her M.B.A. at Brandeis University.
Education & Training
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- MBA Brandeis University 05/2022
- Family Medicine University of California 06/2004
- MD Medicine University of California 05/2001
- BA Molecular and Cellular Biology University of California 05/1996
- Phillips Academy 05/1992
Websites
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- Posts on X @mahoneymegan_me (X.com)
Publications (51)
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Primary Health CarePhysician AssistantsFamily PracticeSocial JusticeCommunity MedicinePatient Care TeamVaccinesEmergency RespondersNurse PractitionersAwards and PrizesModels, OrganizationalBurnout, ProfessionalPhysicians, FamilyPhysicians, Primary CareLeadership
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Approach to the Postmarket Evaluation of Consumer Wearable Technologies.
JAMA cardiology 2025 Pundi K, Bhavnani S, Seninger C, Zuckerman B, Paulsen J, Aguel F, Din N, Viggiano B, Yoo RM, Dalal N, Go AS, Granger C, Krumholz H, Lacar K, Li R, Lin S, Mahaffey KW, Mahoney M, McCall D, Hills MT, … -
Empowering Family Physicians in Medical Staff Leadership to Foster Physician Well-Being.
Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine : JABFM 2025 Mahoney MR, Damrose E, Shanafelt T -
Integrating a High Blood Pressure Advisory Across a Primary Care Network.
JAMA network open 2025 Phadke A, Weng Y, Johnson CB, Winget M, Mahoney M, Sharp C, Sattler A, Shah S, Desai M, Ng S, Shaw JG -
Storylines of family medicine VIII: clinical approaches.
Family medicine and community health 2024 Ventres WB, Stone LA, Gibson-Oliver LE, Meehan EK, Ricker MA, Loxterkamp D, Ogbeide SA, deGruy FV, Mahoney MR, Lin S, MacRae C, Mercer SW -
Medicine plus mindset: A mixed-methods evaluation of a novel mindset-focused training for primary care teams.
Patient education and counseling 2024 Leibowitz KA, Howe LC, Winget M, Brown-Johnson C, Safaeinili N, Shaw JG, Thakor D, Kwan L, Mahoney M, Crum AJ
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Ensuring Community Is at the Table in Family and Community Medicine Research: Highlighting Dr. Kevin Grumbach's Speech as Recipient of the 2022 NAPCRG Wood Award.
Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine : JABFM 2024 Hessler Jones D, Mahoney M -
BioCanRx Summit for Cancer Immunotherapy 2022 Proceedings.
Biochemistry and cell biology = Biochimie et biologie cellulaire 2023 Lee S, Hoskin V, Laumont C, Snelling S, Lindo L, Bird L, Samarkina V, Thurston C, Fox G, Ivanco S, Mahoney M, Boudreau J, Nersesian S -
Developing current procedural terminology codes that describe the work performed by machines.
NPJ digital medicine 2022 Frank RA, Jarrin R, Pritzker J, Abramoff MD, Repka MX, Baird PD, Marlene Grenon S, Mahoney MR, Mattison JE, Silva E -
Optimizing Care Teams by Leveraging Advanced Practice Providers Through Strategic Workforce Planning.
The Journal of nursing administration 2022 Kuriakose C, Stringer M, Ziegler A, Hsieh C, Atashroo M, Hendershott J, Tippett V, Shah D, Cianfichi L, Katznelson L, Mahoney M -
Anti-nucleocapsid antibody levels and pulmonary comorbid conditions are linked to post-COVID-19 syndrome.
JCI insight 2022 Jia X, Cao S, Lee AS, Manohar M, Sindher SB, Ahuja N, Artandi M, Blish CA, Blomkalns AL, Chang I, Collins WJ, Desai M, Din HN, Do E, Fernandes A, Geng LN, Rosenberg-Hasson Y, Mahoney MR, Glascock AL, … -
A Social Media‒Based Public Health Campaign Encouraging COVID-19 Vaccination Across the United States.
American journal of public health 2022 Hunt IV, Dunn T, Mahoney M, Chen M, Nava V, Linos E -
Patient and Health Professional Perceptions of Telemonitoring for Hypertension Management: Qualitative Study.
JMIR formative research 2022 Baratta J, Brown-Johnson C, Safaeinili N, Goldman Rosas L, Palaniappan L, Winget M, Mahoney M -
Diagnostic journeys: characterization of patients and diagnostic outcomes from an academic second opinion clinic.
Diagnosis (Berlin, Germany) 2022 Chao S, Lotfi J, Lin B, Shaw J, Jhandi S, Mahoney M, Singh B, Nguyen L, Halawi H, Geng LN -
Gearing Up for a Vaccine Requirement: A Mixed Methods Study of COVID-19 Vaccine Confidence Among Workers at an Academic Medical Center.
Journal of healthcare management / American College of Healthcare Executives 2022 Mahoney M, Winget M, Brown-Johnson C, de Borba L, Veruttipong D, Luu J, Jones D, Bohman B, Vilendrer S -
Health Care Equity for Family Medicine Patients and Family Physician Equity.
Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine : JABFM 2022 Bowman MA, Seehusen DA, Mahoney MR, Ledford CJW -
Primary Care 2.0: A Prospective Evaluation of a Novel Model of Advanced Team Care With Expanded Medical Assistant Support.
Annals of family medicine 2021 Shaw JG, Winget M, Brown-Johnson C, Seay-Morrison T, Garvert DW, Levine M, Safaeinili N, Mahoney MR -
Reimaging and Rebuilding Primary Care as a Common Good.
Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine : JABFM 2021 Mahoney MR -
An App-Based Intervention to Support First Responders and Essential Workers During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Needs Assessment and Mixed Methods Implementation Study.
Journal of medical Internet research 2021 Vilendrer S, Amano A, Brown Johnson CG, Favet M, Safaeinili N, Villasenor J, Shaw JG, Hertelendy AJ, Asch SM, Mahoney M -
Implementation outcomes of Humanwide: integrated precision health in team-based family practice primary care.
BMC family practice 2021 Brown-Johnson CG, Safaeinili N, Baratta J, Palaniappan L, Mahoney M, Rosas LG, Winget M -
Building Bridges Between Community Health Centers and Academic Medical Centers in a COVID-19 Pandemic.
Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine : JABFM 2021 Taylor NK, Aboelata N, Mahoney M, Seay-Morrison T, Singh B, Chang SI, Asch SM, Shaw JG -
What Are Patient Preferences for Integrated Behavioral Health in Primary Care?
Journal of primary care & community health 2021 Dunn JA, Chokron Garneau H, Filipowicz H, Mahoney M, Seay-Morrison T, Dent K, McGovern M -
"Racial Bias…I'm Not Sure if It Has Affected My Practice": a Qualitative Exploration of Racial Bias in Team-Based Primary Care.
Journal of general internal medicine 2020 Brown-Johnson C, Shankar M, Taylor NK, Safaeinili N, Shaw JG, Winget M, Mahoney M -
COVID-19 Preoperative Assessment and Testing: From Surge to Recovery.
Annals of surgery 2020 Lu AC, Schmiesing CA, Mahoney M, Cianfichi L, Semple AK, Watt D, Fischer S, Wald SH -
What constitutes "behavioral health"? Perceptions of substance-related problems and their treatment in primary care.
Addiction science & clinical practice 2020 Chen IQ, Chokron Garneau H, Seay-Morrison T, Mahoney MR, Filipowicz H, McGovern MP -
Qualitative Assessment of Rapid System Transformation to Primary Care Video Visits at an Academic Medical Center.
Annals of internal medicine 2020 Srinivasan M, Asch S, Vilendrer S, Thomas SC, Bajra R, Barman L, Edwards LM, Filipowicz H, Giang L, Jee O, Mahoney M, Nelligan I, Phadke AJ, Torres E, Artandi M -
The Stanford Lightning Report Method: A comparison of rapid qualitative synthesis results across four implementation evaluations.
Learning health systems 2019 Brown-Johnson C, Safaeinili N, Zionts D, Holdsworth LM, Shaw JG, Asch SM, Mahoney M, Winget M -
Effect of Electronic Clinical Decision Support on Imaging for the Evaluation of Acute Low Back Pain in the Ambulatory Care Setting.
World neurosurgery 2019 Chen D, Bhambhvani HP, Hom J, Mahoney M, Wintermark M, Sharp C, Ratliff J, Chen YR -
CFIR simplified: Pragmatic application of and adaptations to the Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research (CFIR) for evaluation of a patient-centered care transformation within a learning health system.
Learning health systems 2019 Safaeinili N, Brown-Johnson C, Shaw JG, Mahoney M, Winget M -
Ten Ways Artificial Intelligence Will Transform Primary Care.
Journal of general internal medicine 2019 Lin SY, Mahoney MR, Sinsky CA -
Humanwide: A Comprehensive Data Base for Precision Health in Primary Care.
Annals of family medicine 2019 Mahoney MR, Asch SM -
Role definition is key-Rapid qualitative ethnography findings from a team-based primary care transformation.
Learning health systems 2019 Brown-Johnson C, Shaw JG, Safaeinili N, Chan GK, Mahoney M, Asch S, Winget M -
Breast Cancer knowledge, perceptions and practices in a rural Community in Coastal Kenya.
BMC public health 2019 Sayed S, Ngugi AK, Mahoney MR, Kurji J, Talib ZM, Macfarlane SB, Wynn TA, Saleh M, Lakhani A, Nderitu E, Agoi F, Premji Z, Zujewski JA, Moloo Z -
Primary Care 2.0: Design of a Transformational Team-Based Practice Model to Meet the Quadruple Aim.
American journal of medical quality : the official journal of the American College of Medical Quality 2018 Brown-Johnson CG, Chan GK, Winget M, Shaw JG, Patton K, Hussain R, Olayiwola JN, Chang SI, Mahoney M -
Perceptions regarding the scope of practice of family doctors amongst patients in primary care settings in Nairobi.
African journal of primary health care & family medicine 2018 Mohamoud G, Mash B, Merali M, Orwa J, Mahoney M -
An Academic Achievement Calculator for Clinician-Educators in Primary Care.
Family medicine 2017 Lin S, Mahoney M, Singh B, Schillinger E -
Impact of Scribes on Physician Satisfaction, Patient Satisfaction, and Charting Efficiency: A Randomized Controlled Trial.
Annals of family medicine 2017 Gidwani R, Nguyen C, Kofoed A, Carragee C, Rydel T, Nelligan I, Sattler A, Mahoney M, Lin S -
Preparing Family Physicians to Care for Underserved Populations: A Historical Perspective.
Family medicine 2017 Rodgers DV, Wendling AL, Saba GW, Mahoney MR, Brown Speights JS -
Utilization of health services in a resource-limited rural area in Kenya: Prevalence and associated household-level factors.
PloS one 2017 Ngugi AK, Agoi F, Mahoney MR, Lakhani A, Mang'ong'o D, Nderitu E, Armstrong R, Macfarlane S -
An assessment of implementation of CommunityOriented Primary Care in Kenyan family medicine postgraduate medical education programmes.
African journal of primary health care & family medicine 2016 Nelligan IJ, Shabani J, Taché S, Mohamoud G, Mahoney M -
Loss of Fertility in the Absence of Progesterone Receptor Expression in Kisspeptin Neurons of Female Mice.
PloS one 2016 Gal A, Lin PC, Cacioppo JA, Hannon PR, Mahoney MM, Wolfe A, Fernandez-Valdivia R, Lydon JP, Elias CF, Ko C -
Giving voice to older adults living with frailty and their family caregivers: engagement of older adults living with frailty in research, health care decision making, and in health policy.
Research involvement and engagement 2016 Holroyd-Leduc J, Resin J, Ashley L, Barwich D, Elliott J, Huras P, Légaré F, Mahoney M, Maybee A, McNeil H, Pullman D, Sawatzky R, Stolee P, Muscedere J -
Interplay of the physical microenvironment, contact guidance, and intracellular signaling in cell decision making.
FASEB journal : official publication of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology 2016 Paul CD, Shea DJ, Mahoney MR, Chai A, Laney V, Hung WC, Konstantopoulos K -
"I have it just like you do": voices of HIV-negative partners in serodifferent relationships receiving primary care at a public clinic in San Francisco.
AIDS care 2014 Mahoney M, Weber S, Bien M, Saba G -
Adaptation of an evidence-based HIV prevention intervention for women with incarcerated partners: expanding to community settings.
AIDS education and prevention : official publication of the International Society for AIDS Education 2013 Mahoney M, Bien M, Comfort M -
Applying HIV testing guidelines in clinical practice.
American family physician 2009 Mahoney MR, Fogler J, Weber S, Goldschmidt RH -
Clinicians' knowledge of 2007 Food and Drug Administration recommendation to discontinue nelfinavir use during pregnancy.
Journal of the International Association of Physicians in AIDS Care (Chicago, Ill. : 2002) 2009 Fogler J, Weber S, Mahoney MR, Goldschmidt RH -
Minority faculty voices on diversity in academic medicine: perspectives from one school.
Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges 2008 Mahoney MR, Wilson E, Odom KL, Flowers L, Adler SR -
African-American clinicians providing HIV care: the experience of the National HIV/AIDS Clinicians' Consultation Center.
Journal of the National Medical Association 2008 Mahoney MR, Sterkenburg C, Thom DH, Goldschmidt RH -
Care of HIV-infected Latinos in the United States: a description of calls to the National HIV/AIDS Clinicians' Consultation Center.
The Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care : JANAC 2008 Mahoney MR, Khamarko K, Goldschmidt RH -
Consultation needs in perinatal HIV care: experience of the National Perinatal HIV Consultation Service.
American journal of obstetrics and gynecology 2007 Fogler JA, Weber S, Goldschmidt RH, Mahoney MR, Cohan D -
The changing role of family physicians in HIV care.
American family physician 2006 Mahoney MR, Goldschmidt RH